Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Mary Emerson Ripley

by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Publication date: 1845-10-14

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Topics: Ripley, Mary Emerson, Correspondence, Abernethy Manuscripts Collection

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Language: english-handwritten

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Transcriber: Joseph Watson (ed.)
Todd Sturtevant
Virginia Faust

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Concord 14 Oct. 1845.

My dear Mary With my congrat ulation on the approach of the auspicious morrow will you not allow me to send you an offering to bring a little salt & oil to your new housekeeping. I make no apology for choosing this form rather than some tasteful gift for so I only begin to send home an old deposit which your father lodged in my hands in

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my boyhood, I cannot tell how many times. With the best love from my mother & my wife, Your affectionate cousin, Waldo E.

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[addressed to]

Miss Mary E. Ripley Waltham.